WO2018170382A1 - Selective deposition on silicon containing surfaces - Google Patents
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- the present application relates to selective deposition on a first surface of a substrate relative to a second surface.
- further processing can be used to subsequently deposit a different material on the second surface relative to the first.
- gap fill Another potential application for selective deposition is gap fill.
- the dielectric "fill" film is grown selectively from the bottom of a trench towards the top.
- Selective deposition could be used for other applications such as selective sidewall deposition where films are selectively deposited on exposed surfaces of three deminsional FIN-FET structures. This would enable the deposition of a sidewall spacer without the need for complex patterning steps. Selective deposition processes for metal and metal oxide films that are used as gate dielectrics and capacitor dielectrics would also be of great utility in semiconductor device manufacturing.
- One or more embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods of depositing a film.
- a substrate comprising a first substrate surface including a hydroxyl- terminated surface and a second substrate surface including a hydrogen-terminated surface is provided.
- the substrate is exposed to multiple processing steps to selectively alter the hydroxyl-terminated surface relative to the hydrogen-terminated surface in order to render it unreactive, or less reactive, than an untreated hydroxyl-terminated surface during a subsequent film deposition step wherein a film is selectively deposited on the hydrogen-terminated surface.
- the present invention provides a method for preparing a surface of a substrate for selective film deposition, wherein the surface of the substrate comprises at least a first surface comprising Si0 2 and an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups and a second surface comprising SiH, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the substrate to a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups; and heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate.
- the present invention provides a method for selectively passivating the surface of a substrate by vapor phase reaction, wherein the surface of the substrate comprises at least a first surface comprising Si0 2 and an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups and a second surface comprising SiH, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the substrate to a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups; heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C and a pressure of from 10-10 Torr to 3000 Torr, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate; exposing the substrate, at a temperature equal to or below the heating step, to a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of Formula I and Formula II :
- R 1 , R 2 , and R 4 are each independently selected from H, a Ci to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to C 10 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group, a C 4 to C 8 aryl group, and a C 3 to C 10 alkynyl group;
- R 3 is selected from a Ci to Ci 8 alkyl group, a branched C 3 to Cio alkyl group, a C 4 to Cio heterocyclic group and a C 4 to Cio aryl group;
- R 5 is selected from a bond, a to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to C 10 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group, a C 4 to C 8
- the present invention provides a method of selectively depositing a film on a surface of a substrate wherein the surface of the substrate comprises at least a first surface comprising Si0 2 and an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups and a second surface comprising SiH, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the substrate to a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups; heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C and a pressure of from 10-10 Torr to 3000 Torr, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate; exposing the substrate, at a temperature equal to or below the heating step, to a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of Formula I and Formula II:
- R 1 , R 2 , and R 4 are each independently selected from H, a Ci to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to do heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group, a d to C 8 aryl group, and a C 3 to C 10 alkynyl group;
- R 3 is selected from a d to C 18 alkyl group, a branched C 3 to d 0 alkyl group, a d to Cio heterocyclic group and a d to Cio aryl group;
- R 5 is selected from a bond, a d to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to C 10 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group, a d to
- FIG. 1 is an illustration of the effect of the heat treatment step of the present invention on a substrate surface;
- FIG. 2 is an illustration of a passivated surface according to the present invention;
- FIG.3 is a TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 4 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention as well as the corresponding QMS spectra showing loss of H 2 0 signal;
- FIG. 5 is a graph illustrating the normalized intensity of SiOH measured by TOF- SIMS for a substrate surface pre- and post-thermal exposure
- FIG. 6 is a TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 7 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention as well as the corresponding QMS spectra showing loss of H 2 0 signal;
- FIG. 9 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step and after thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 10 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 1 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received and after a thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 12 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention as well as the corresponding QMS spectra showing loss of H 2 0 signal;
- FIG. 13 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step and after thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 14 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 15 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step and after thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 16 is a graph illustrating the normalized intensity of SiOH measured by TOF-SIMS for a substrate surface pre- and post-thermal exposure
- FIG. 17 is a graph plotting the mean contact angles of various substrate surfaces after cleaning, thermal, and passivation steps in embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 18 is a graph plotting the mean contact angles of various substrate surfaces after cleaning, thermal, and passivation steps in embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 19 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 20 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step and after thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 21 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure steps (without thermal treatment) according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 22 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 23 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure step and after thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 24 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after a wet chemical exposure steps (without thermal treatment) according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 25 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 26 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received after a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment plus thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 27 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received after a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment plus thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 28 is a TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after wet chemical and thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 29 is a TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received plus thermal treatment (no wet chemical exposure) according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 30 is a TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface after wet chemical exposure and thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 31 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 32 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received after a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment plus thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 33 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received without a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment also without thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 34 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received with a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment also with thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 35 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received without a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment also without thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention ;
- FIG. 36 is a graph illustrating the temperature profile verus time for a thermal treatment step according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 37 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received with a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment also with a thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 38 is a series of TOF-SIMS spectra of a substrate surface as received without a thermal treatment and of a substrate after a wet chemical treatment also without thermal treatment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods that employ surface deactivation by taking advantage of the surface chemistry of two different surfaces. Since two different surfaces will have different reactive handles, the differences can be taken advantage of by utilizing molecules that will react with one surface (to deactivate that surface) and not react with the other surface.
- substrate and "wafer” are used interchangeably, both referring to a surface, or portion of a surface, upon which a process acts. It will also be understood by those skilled in the art that reference to a substrate can also refer to only a portion of the substrate, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additionally, reference to depositing on a substrate can mean both a bare substrate and a substrate with one or more films or features deposited or formed thereon.
- a "substrate” as used herein, refers to any substrate or material surface formed on a substrate upon which film processing is performed during a fabrication process.
- a substrate surface on which processing can be performed include materials such as silicon, silicon oxide, strained silicon, silicon on insulator (SOI), carbon doped silicon oxides, silicon nitride, doped silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, glass, sapphire, and any other materials such as metals, metal nitrides, metal alloys, and other conductive materials, depending on the application.
- Substrates include, without limitation, semiconductor wafers.
- Substrates may be exposed to a pretreatment process to polish, etch, reduce, oxidize, hydroxylate, anneal and/or bake the substrate surface.
- a pretreatment process to polish, etch, reduce, oxidize, hydroxylate, anneal and/or bake the substrate surface.
- any of the film processing steps disclosed may also be performed on an underlayer formed on the substrate as disclosed in more detail below, and the term
- substrate surface is intended to include such underlayer as the context indicates. Thus for example, where a film/layer or partial film/layer has been deposited onto a substrate surface, the exposed surface of the newly deposited film/layer becomes the substrate surface. What a given substrate surface comprises will depend on what films are to be deposited, as well as the particular chemistry used. In one or more embodiments, the first substrate surface will comprise a metal, and the second substrate surface will comprise a dielectric, or vice versa. In some embodiments, a substrate surface may comprise certain functionality (e.g., -OH, -NH, etc.).
- the films that can be used in the methods described herein are quite varied.
- the films may comprise, or consist essentially of a metal.
- metal films include, but are not limited to, cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), tungsten (W), etc.
- the film comprises a dielectric. Examples include, Si0 2 , SiN, Hf0 2 , etc.
- reactive gas As used in this specification and the appended claims, the terms “reactive gas”, “precursor”, “reactant”, and the like, are used interchangeably to mean a gas that includes a species which is reactive with a substrate surface.
- a first "reactive gas” may simply adsorb onto the surface of a substrate and be available for further chemical reaction with a second reactive gas.
- Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods of selectively depositing a film such as, for example, a metal film, onto one surface of a substrate over a second surface the same substrate.
- a film such as, for example, a metal film
- the term “selectively depositing a film on one surface over another surface”, and the like means that one of the first or second surface is passivated to substantially prevent depositon on the passivated layer and a film is deposited on the second (non-passivated) surface.
- the term “over” used in this regard does not imply a physical orientation of one surface on top of another surface, rather a relationship of the thermodynamic or kinetic properties of the chemical reaction with one surface relative to the other surface.
- selectively depositing a cobalt film onto a copper surface over a dielectric surface means that the cobalt film deposits on the copper surface and less or no cobalt film deposits on the dielectric surface; or that the formation of the cobalt film on the copper surface is thermodynamically or kinetically favorable relative to the formation of a cobalt film on the dielectric surface.
- a material comprising Ni, Ti, Fe, or Co such as Ni metal, nickel nitride or NiN x , cobalt, iron or titanium oxide structures can selectively be grown on Si0 2 based surfaces, and other surfaces as described herein.
- nickel nitride or NiN x refers to a material comprising at least some Ni--N bonds.
- a first material such as a material comprising Ni, Ti, Fe, or Co, such as nickel, nickel nitride or NiN x , cobalt, iron or titanium oxide film
- a nickel, nickel nitride, cobalt, iron or titanium oxide film can be selectively deposited on a low-k insulator surface, for example an oxide or nitride surface, such as a form of silicon oxide or silicon nitride, relative to a second surface, such as a H- terminated surface of the same substrate.
- the surface on which selective deposition occurs comprises an AH x -termination, where A is one or more of N, O or S and x is from 1 to 2.
- the surface comprises OH-terminations.
- the surface is an NH x -terminated surface such as a --NH or --NH 2 terminated surface.
- the surface is an SH x -terminated surface.
- the first surface is a dielectric surface, such as a Si0 2 surface or silicon oxynitride surface.
- the first surface may comprise silicon oxides, silicon nitrides, silicon oxynitrides, fluorinated silica glass (FSG), carbon doped silicon oxide (SiOC) and/or materials containing more than about 50% silicon oxide.
- the first surface comprises OH-groups and may comprise, for example, an alumina (Al 2 0 3 ) surface with --OH surface groups.
- the second surface is a --SiH 3 , --SiH 2 , or --SiH surface.
- the second surface is formed by etching native oxide of silicon and the second surface comprises Si-H bonds.
- the second surface is a pure silicon surface or a silicon(100) oriented surface.
- the present invention provides a method for preparing a surface of a substrate for selective film deposition, wherein the surface of the substrate comprises at least a first surface comprising Si0 2 and an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups and a second surface comprising SiH, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the substrate to a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups; and heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate.
- surface comprising SiH includes the AH x -termination as defined above.
- the present invention provides a method for selectively passivating the surface of a substrate by vapor phase reaction, wherein the surface of the substrate comprises at least a first surface comprising Si0 2 and an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups and a second surface comprising SiH, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the substrate to a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups; heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C and a pressure of from 10-10 Torr to 3000 Torr, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate; exposing the substrate, at a temperature equal to or below the heating step, to a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of Formula I and Formula II:
- R 1 , R 2 , and R 4 are each independently selected from H, a d to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to do heterocyclic group, a C 3 to do alkenyl group, a d to C 8 aryl group, and a C 3 to do alkynyl group;
- R 3 is selected from a d to d 8 alkyl group, a branched C 3 to d 0 alkyl group, a d to d 0 heterocyclic group and a d to d 0 aryl group;
- R 5 is selected from a bond, a d to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to d 0 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to d 0 alken
- the present invention provides a method of selectively depositing a film on a surface of a substrate wherein the surface of the substrate comprises at least a first surface comprising Si0 2 and an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups and a second surface comprising SiH, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the substrate to a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups; heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C and a pressure of from 10-10 Torr to 3000 Torr, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate; exposing the substrate, at a temperature equal to or below the heating step, to a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of Formula I and Formula II:
- R 1 , R 2 , and R 4 are each independently selected from H, a Ci to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to Cio heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group, a C 4 to C 8 aryl group, and a C 3 to C 10 alkynyl group;
- R 3 is selected from a to C 18 alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 10 alkyl group, a C 4 to Cio heterocyclic group and a C 4 to Cio aryl group;
- R 5 is selected from a bond, a Ci to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to C 10 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group, a C 4 to C 8
- a method for preparing a surface of a substrate for selective deposition by vapor phase reaction wherein the surface comprises Si0 2 and SiH, wherein the first step is typically but optionally contacting the surface with a wet chemical composition.
- the surface comprising Si0 2 is a dielectric surface, such as a Si0 2 surface and/or silicon oxynitride surface.
- the surface comprising Si0 2 may comprise silicon oxides, silicon nitrides, silicon oxynitrides, fluorinated silica glass (FSG), carbon doped silicon oxide (SiOC) and/or materials containing more than about 50% silicon oxide.
- the surface comprising Si0 2 comprises -OH groups and may comprise, for example, an alumina (Al 2 0 3 ) surface with -OH surface groups.
- the surface comprising SiH is a -SiH 3 , -SiH 2 , or -SiH surface. In some embodiments the surface comprising SiH is a pure silicon surface or an Si(100) surface.
- the first surface comprises an initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups.
- concentration of surface hydroxyl groups can be quantified by techniques well known in the art such as, for example, Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS).
- the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups is from about 1 .4 X 10 6 normalized counts for positive ion analysis for mass 45 amu to about 2.2 X 10 6 normalized counts for positive ion analysis for mass 45 amu as determined by TOF-SIMS. This corresponds to hydroxyl surface concentrations of about 4.2 OH/nm 2 to 4.6 OH/nm 2 as measured by FTIR and other techniques known to those skilled in the art.
- the method of the present invention includes the optional step of contacting the substrate with a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups.
- a wet chemical treatment include known chemical treatments such as, for example, RCA clean chemicals SC-1 and SC-2, HF, peroxide, H 2 S0 4 / H 2 0 2 , NH 4 OH, buffered HF solutions, and mixtures thereof.
- RCA clean chemicals refer to compositions comprising an ammonium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide mixture wherein the basic cleaning procedure developed by the Radio Corporation of America in the 1960s.
- the RCA Standard-Clean-1 (SC-1 ) procedure uses an ammonium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide solution and water heated to a temperature of about 70 °C.
- the SC-1 procedure dissolves films and removes Group I and II metals.
- the Group I and II metals are removed through complexing with the reagents in the SC-1 solution.
- the RCA Standard-Clean-2 (SC-2) procedure utilizes a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid, and water heated to a temperature of about 70 °C.
- the SC-2 procedure removes the metals that are not removed by the SC-1 procedure.
- the puropse of the wet chemical clean is two-fold.
- the wet chemical step removes impurities from the surface to remove the thin oxide grown on the Si (100) surfaces and replaces it with hydrogen termination while preserving to a large extent the -OH surface termination on the Si0 2 surfaces.
- Such processes are common within the industry and can be optimized to yield clean surfaces with the desired properties using methods known to those skilled in the art.
- the wet chemical clean also increases the concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the concentration of surface hydroxyl groups prior to contacting the surface with the wet chemical.
- the concentration of surface hydroxyl groups increases by from about 1 .1 times the initial concentration to about 1.8 times the initial concentration and ultimately reaches a surface hydroxyl concentration that approaches about 4.6 OH / nm 2 .
- Contacting with the wet chemical can occur by any method known to those skilled in the art such as, for example, dipping or spraying.
- the contacting step can be one discrete step or more than one step.
- the temperature of the wet chemical during the contacting step can be, for example, from about 50 °C to about 100 °C. In other embodiments, the temperature of the wet chemical during the contacting step can be, for example, from about 55 °C to about 95 °C. In other embodiments, the temperature of the wet chemical during the contacting step can be, for example, from about 60 °C to about 90 °C.
- Suitable processes include plasma processes (hydrogen plasma, NH 3 / NF 3 plasmas, water plasmas, water / hydrogen peroxide plasmas and the like), wet chemical processes and / or combinations of the foregoing (to provide full hydroxylation of both surfaces, followed by SiH surface formation on the Si(100) surfaces).
- the method of the present invention also includes the step of heating the treated substrate at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C and, preferably, from about 200 °C to about 500 °C, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate.
- This thermal "treatment" of the wet chemical-cleaned surface can comprise one step or multiple steps. In the multiple step embodiment, the thermal treatment may be conducted at one or more discrete process temperatures for predetermined lengths of time.
- the thermal treatments may be carried out over the temperature range of from about 50-1 200°C, the pressure range 10-10 Torr to 3000 Torr, with or without the presence of a carrier / purge gas for times ranging from 10 s to 12 hours. Any of the process parameters might be changed in a pre-determined fashion for a pre-determined length of time during either a single step thermal treatment or during any of the sub-steps in a multi-step thermal treatment. Heating can be achieved through thermal contact with a heated surface, use of a heated gas stream, through radiant heating (i.e., lamps) or through any other suitable means. Heating may be conducted in a dedicated, interconnected chamber that is a part of a multi-chamber cluster tool.
- discrete heating steps may be carried out in multiple dedicated chambers including load locks and heating chambers that may also be part of larger, interconnected cluster tools.
- the heating step is performed at a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C. In another embodiment, the heating step is performed at a temperature of from about 300 °C to about 550 °C. In yet another embodiment, the heating step is performed at a temperature of from about 400 °C to about 500 °C. In still another embodiment, the heating step is performed by first heating the substrate to a temperature of less than about 200 °C for 5-10 minutes, followed by increasing the temperature to from about 400 °C to about 500 °C. [0078] Although described as a two-step process herein, it may be possible to achieve similar results using a single step process carried out at an initially higher temperature within the range disclosed in the second step below.
- the first step of the thermal process adsorbed moisture is removed from the surface of the Si0 2 to prevent the formation of undesirable interfacial phases during film deposition in a subsequent step and to help provide a very repeatable hydroxyl concentration on the surfaces of the exposed Si0 2 films.
- This first, discrete thermal treatment may be carried out over the temperature range of from about 50 to about 250°C, over the pressure range 10-10 Torr to 760 Torr for lengths of time varying from 1 s to 1 2 hours.
- the temperature is between about 50 and about 240° C
- the pressure is between 10-5 Torr and 300 Torr and the time is between 30 s and 8 hours.
- the temperature is between about 50 and about 230° C
- the pressure is between 10-4 and 100 Torr
- the time is between 1 minute and 6 hours.
- the conditions of the first step to remove adsorbed moisture can be routinely optimized using methods known to those skilled in the art.
- the temperature of the heating step is between about 280 and about 650° C, the pressure is between 10-5 Torr and 300 Torr and the time is between 30 s and 1 0 hours. In another example, the temperature is between about 300 and about 550° C, the pressure is between 10-4 and 100 Torr and the time is between 1 minute and 8 hours.
- the process can be routinely optimized to yield a post thermal treatment surface hydroxyl coverage that provides a mean hydroxyl spacing equal to that desired within the range of from about 3 to 9 A using methods known to those skilled in the art.
- the function of the thermal treatment is, at least in part, to remove a portion of the hydroxyl groups from the surface comprising the hydroxyl groups.
- the thermal treatment step(s) may be carried out in any one of several desirable fashions, or through a combination of more than one of them.
- These include dynamic processing conditions in which the sample is continuously exposed to vacuum with or without a flow of carrier / purge gas; static processing conditions in which the sample is isolated from the vacuum source for pre-determined lengths of time with or without a carrier / purge gas present; and pump-purge process conditions in which the sample is pumped on continuounsly for a pre-determined amount of time, then isolated from the vacuum source and the chamber volume containing it is backfilled with an ultrahigh purity carrier gas to a pre-determined pressure for a pre-determined length of time, after which the sample volume is pumped down to base vacuum for a pre-determined amount of time.
- This pump-purge or cycle purge process may be completed as many times as desired in order to achieve the desired surface hydroxyl concentration. Routine experimentation can be used to determine the optimal process conditions to repeatably yield the desired surface hydroxyl concentration and mean hydroxyl group spacing.
- the teachings herein can also be readily applied to film deposition conditions through the appropriate choice of deposition precursor molecules and film deposition process conditions (temperature, pressure, partial pressure(s) and duration, coupled with purge conditions (P, T, purge gas and duration) for ALD-like processes) to enable improved deposition conditions for Si-containing substrate surfaces that comprise Si, O, C, N, H and combinations of the foregoing, including dopants such as, for example, boron, phosphorous, arsenic, and antimony.
- deposition precursor molecules and film deposition process conditions temperature, pressure, partial pressure(s) and duration, coupled with purge conditions (P, T, purge gas and duration) for ALD-like processes
- P, T, purge gas and duration purge gas and duration
- the thermal treatment step can be utilized for many additional materials to enable selective passivation and / or activation of the desired surfaces and thereby enable selective film deposition processes.
- the chemical surface terminations present on Si(100), Si-containing dielectrics and other materials can be similarly altered through the use of appropriate precursor chemicals and appropriate processing to enable selective deposition through selective surface activation / passivation.
- the method of the present invention includes the step of exposing the substrate, at a temperature equal to or below the heating step, to a silicon- containing compound selected from the group consisting of Formula I and Formula II:
- R 1 , R 2 , and R 4 are each independently selected from H, a d to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to do heterocyclic group, a C 3 to do alkenyl group, a d to C 8 aryl group, and a C 3 to do alkynyl group;
- R 3 is selected from a d to C 18 alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 10 alkyl group, a d to C 10 heterocyclic group and a d to C 10 aryl group;
- R 5 is selected from a bond, a d to C 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 8 cyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to C 10 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group,
- the compounds for use in the method of the present invention are selected from the group consisting of Formula I and Formula II:
- R 1 , R 2 , and R 4 are each independently selected from H, a Ci to Ci 8 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 8 alkyl group, a C 3 to C 18 cyclic or bicyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to Ci8 heterocyclic group, a C 3 to C 18 alkenyl group, a d to C 8 aryl group, and a C 3 to C 10 alkynyl group;
- R 3 is selected from a Ci to Ci 8 alkyl group, a branched C 3 to do alkyl group, a d to do heterocyclic group and a d to do aryl group;
- R 5 is selected from a bond, a d to C 18 linear alkyl group, a branched C 3 to C 18 alkyl group, a to C 18 cyclic or bicyclic alkyl group, a C 3 to C 10 heterocyclic group, a to C 18 alkenyl group, a d to
- each class of compounds are designed to bond to the surface hydroxyl groups through a single reactive ligand (halogeno, amino, alkoxy or silanol), as opposed to many of the precursors in the prior art that rely on multiple reactive ligands (i.e., trialkoxy or trichloro species). It is presently believed that the single reactive ligand species of the present invention will have a high propensity to form monolayer passivation layers with higher overall surface coverage, particularly in light of the surface hydroxyl distribution on the Si0 2 surfaces that will be provided herein after the thermal treatment step.
- the two general 'classes' of precursor molecules include those with:
- Additional embodiments also include the use of fluorocarbon ligands with the caveat that they include at least one hydrocarbon (CH 2 ) link bonded directly to the silicon atom, thereby separating the silicon atom from direct bonding with the fluorocarbon portion of the ligand (i.e. there are no Si-CF X bonds present within the molecule that will form the surface passivation layer).
- fluorocarbon ligands with the caveat that they include at least one hydrocarbon (CH 2 ) link bonded directly to the silicon atom, thereby separating the silicon atom from direct bonding with the fluorocarbon portion of the ligand (i.e. there are no Si-CF X bonds present within the molecule that will form the surface passivation layer).
- fluorocarbon ligands with the caveat that they include at least one hydrocarbon (CH 2 ) link bonded directly to the silicon atom, thereby separating the silicon atom from direct bonding with the fluorocarbon portion of the ligand (i.e. there are
- Trimethylsilicon chloride trimethylsilicon bromide; trimethylsilicon Iodide; dimethylaminotrimethyl silane; ethylmethylaminotrimethyl silane; diethylaminotrimethyl silane; ethylpropylaminotrimethyl silane; di-propylaminotrimethyl silane;
- ethylisopropylaminotrimethyl silane di-iso-propylaminotrimethyl silane; di-n-butyltrimethyl silane; di-isobutyltrimethyl silane; di-sec-butyltrimethyl silane;
- diethylaminotri-n-propyl silane diethylaminotri-n-propyl silane; ethylpropylaminotri-n-propylsilane; di-propylaminotri-n- propyl silane; ethylisopropylaminotri-n-propyl silane; di-iso-propylaminotri-n-propyl silane;
- D Tri-isopropylsilicon chloride; tri-isopropylsilicon bromide; tri-isopropylsilicon iodide; dimethylaminotri-isopropyl silane; ethylmethylamino tri-isopropyl silane;
- Tri-secbutylsilicon chloride tri-secbutylsilicon bromide; tri-secbutylsilicon iodide; dimethylaminotri-secbutyl silane; ethylmethylamino tri-secbutyl silane;
- octyldimethylsilicon iodide dimethylaminooctyldimethyl silane
- Decyldimethylsilicon iodide dimethylamino Decyldimethyl silane
- Hexadecyldimethylsilicon iodide dimethylaminohexadecyldimethyl silane
- Octadecyldimethylsilicon iodide dimethylamino-octadecyldimethyl silane; [00107]
- compoiunds according to Formula II and ll(a) include, but are not limited to the following 1 ,3-bis-chlorodimethylsilyl(ethane); 1 ,3-bis- bromodimethylsilyl(ethane); 1 ,3-bis-iododimethylsilyl(ethane); 1 ,3-bis-dimethylamino- dimethylsilyl(ethane); 1 ,3-bis-chlorodimethylsilyl(propane); 1 ,3-bis- bromodimethylsilyl(propane); 1 ,3-bis-iododimethylsilyl(propane); 1 ,3-bis-dimethylamino- dimethylsilyl(propane); 1 ,3-bis-chlorodimethylsilyl(butane); 1 ,3-bis- bromodimethylsilyl(butane); 1 ,3-bis-iodod
- Additional embodiments also include the use of fluorocarbon ligands in any desired R group position with the caveat that they include at least one hydrocarbon (CH 2 ) link bonded directly to the silicon atom, thereby separating the silicon atom from direct bonding with the fluorocarbon portion of the ligand (i.e., there are no Si-CF X bonds present within the molecule that will form the surface passivation layer).
- fluorocarbon ligands in any desired R group position with the caveat that they include at least one hydrocarbon (CH 2 ) link bonded directly to the silicon atom, thereby separating the silicon atom from direct bonding with the fluorocarbon portion of the ligand (i.e., there are no Si-CF X bonds present within the molecule that will form the surface passivation layer).
- a benefit of the method of the present invention is that one can control the surface density of -OH groups by heating the surface as detailed above after wet chemical treatment. The heat will drive off a portion of the -OH groups.
- This surface density can be measured by, for example, low energy ion scattering, TOF-SIMS, or FTIR (surface mode), and, from that information, a precursor can be selected for optimal passivation based on the size of the precursor.
- the thermal pre- treatment temperature is preferably between from about 375 to about 450° C in order to provide a mean surface hydroxyl spacing of approximately 6.5 angstroms while leaving the H-terminated Si(100) surface provided by the initial wet cleaning steps intact and essentially unchanged.
- the preferred precursor molecules for this surface depend upon whether they have 1 or 2 points of surface bonding embedded within the molecule (i.e., 1 or 2 reactive ligands with no more than 1 reactive ligand attached to any given atom within a precursor molecule).
- the spacing is largely driven by steric hindrance constraints and the non-reactive ligand(s) are selected such that they will not hinder reactions at neighboring 'free' hydroxyl sites, but such that they will provide maximum surface coverage by organic functionalities.
- the spacing between the two (single reactive ligand) atoms is made to be slightly larger than the mean spacing between surface hydroxyl groups.
- the controlled "free" surface hydroxyl spacing, coupled with the molecular design may enable rapid and complete, vapor phase formation of surface passivation coatings. This represents a potential marked improvement over the prior art and may result in commercially feasible selective ALD processes for Si0 2 / Si surfaces.
- Additional advantages include: (1 ) that the increased reactivity of the "free" hydroxyl groups enables the use of a wider range of reactive ligands to attach the surface passivation moieties to the Si0 2 surfaces relative to Si0 2 surfaces not so prepared (i.e., enables the use of a broader range of precursor chemistries); (2) that the passivation layer that is formed will be formed more rapidly and more completely at reaction temperatures higher than the minimum reaction temperature with better (maximized) surface coverage relative to related-art surfaces not so prepared; (3) formation of Si0 2 passivated surfaces with improved resistance to precursor nucleation in subsequent ALD film deposition processes by virtue of the closest-packed passivation layer and the reduction in the number of residual surface hydroxyl bonds (present beneath the surface passivation layer for Si0 2 surfaces of the prior art) enabling improved selective film deposition in subsequent process steps.
- the passivation layer be formed as soon as possible after heat treatment to avoid exposure of the treated surfaces to moisture or oxygen.
- amines When used as co-reactants or catalysts, amines are meant to encompass the class of molecules including NR 3 where R is independently H, alkyl, aryl, alkene, etc. and pyridine and pyridine derivatives. It is known in the art that amines can be used in conjunction with molecules encompassing halogen reactive groups to achieve lower overall reaction temperature for reactions on the hydroxylated surfaces of the related art. If used in conjunction with the teachings of the present invention, such amines might enable even lower temperature reactions to form the desired passivation layers, as well as reduced reaction times. Absent the teachings of the present invention, the use of these molecules can enable the formation of the desired passivation layers at lower temperatures than in their absence.
- Vapor phase reactions are meant to imply that the precursors are exposed to the heated and pre-treated substrate (that is contained in a sealed vessel) through introduction of the precursors in the vapor phase, but this does not preclude condensation of precursors or co-reactants on the surface of the substrate if the substrate temperature is below the boiling point of the precursors and / or co-reactants (i.e. a liquid layer may be allowed to form to promote the reaction of the surface hydroxyl groups with the precursors and / or reactants).
- Liquid (solution) phase reactions are meant to imply that the precursors and / or co-reactants are introduced directly onto the surface of the substate in the liquid state, either 'neat' or in conjunction with a suitable liquid solvent. If a solvent is used, it should be ultra-high purity and non-reactive with either the substrate or the precursors and / or co-reactants.
- Vapor phase or gas phase reactions include those between the surface hydroxyl groups provided by the passivation step and the single reactive ligand on the precursor molecule. They include the exposure of the heated substrate to the precursor molecule(s) and / or co-reactants in a suitable chamber that must be capable of providing the necessary pressure control and that can also supply heat to the substrate and / or chamber walls; the chamber should also provide suitable purity for the reactions that will take place, generally through high leak integrity and the use of ultra-high purity carrier and reactive gases.
- Another embodiment of the invention relates to using cooling of the substrate to promote the formation of a liquid layer of precursor(s) and / or co- reactants on the surface of the substrate prior to subsequently heating the substrate to react the precursor(s) and / or co-reactants with the surface hydroxyl groups.
- precursors is intended to mean the single reactive ligand, single anchor point and/or two anchor point molecules described previously herein. They may be used in conjucntion with ultra-high purity carrier gases (as defined previously) and in any desired mixtures with one another (i.e. more than one type of precursor can be used either together or in discrete, independent steps to form the desired passivation layer with whatever order of precursor introduction is desired).
- Co-reactants are meant to mean the catalytic amine reactants disclosed previously (if they are to be used).
- the precursor(s) and / or co-reactants may be delivered to the reactor using mass flow controllers (perhaps with heated lines), liquid injection vaporizors (perhaps with heated lines) or with no metering device (i.e. neat introduction of the vapor and or gas from a vessel that is isolated from the reactor using a simple valve). Any of the foregoing may also be used in combination with one another. Any means of providing the gas and / or vapor(s) to the reaction chamber that provides sufficient purity and repeatability may be used.
- the precursor(s) and / or co-reactants may be introduced independently to the reactor, mixed prior to introduction to the reactor, mixed in the reactor or in any combination of the preceding in mulitple, independent steps that might include differences in how the precursors are introduced between steps.
- the temperature range for reaction should be selected to be near the maximum stability temperature of a given surface passivation layer (as mentioned previously). However, the temperature range of the reactions may be between room temperature and 700° C, with the caveat that the temperature should be equal to or less than that of the pre-treatment temperature.
- the pressure may range from 10-10 Torr to 3000 Torr and may be maintained under dynamic flow conditions (i.e. with a valve and a butterfly valve type arrangement) or may be maintained under static conditions (i.e.
- an evacuated chamber is exposed to the desired precursor(s) and / or co-reactant(s) until a total desired pressure is achieved and then the chamber is isolated from both the precursor(s) and / or co-reactant(s) source(s) and the vacuum pump).
- the reactor can be evacuated fully and re-exposed to fresh precuror(s) and / or co-reactants as many times as necessary.
- Precursor(s) and / or co- reactants may be introduced using any mixtures and / or concentrations desired.
- the surface comprising SiH is active for further selective reactions such as, for example, a selective ALD depostion of SiCN on the Si-H surface.
- Additional materials that may be selectively deposited on the surface comprising SiH include silicon films comprising oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon (i.e., SiO x , SiN x , SiO x N y , SiC x N y , SiO x C y all possibly incorporating H as well), metals metal nitrides, and metal oxides.
- a metal oxide film is selectively deposited on the second surface.
- the metal oxide film may serve as a cap layer on the second surface.
- the metal oxide film can, for example, be deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), plasma-enhanced ALD (PEALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma- enhanced CVD (PECVD), or pulsed CVD.
- the metal oxide film may be selected from the group consisting of Hf0 2 , Zr0 2 , Ti0 2 , Al 2 0 3 , and a combination thereof.
- the metal oxide film may be deposited by ALD using alternating exposures of a metal organic precursor and an oxidizer (e.g., H 2 0, H 2 0 2 , plasma-excited 0 2 or 0 3 ).
- Selective depositions according to the present invention can be, for example, metal and metal oxide layers disclosed in Hamalainen et al., “Atomic Layer Deposition of Noble Metals and Their Oxides,” Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 786-801 ; and Johnson et al., “A Brief review of Atomic layer Deposition: From Fundamentals to Applications", Materials Today, Volume 17, Number 5, June 2014, both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
- a metal film is selectively deposited on the second surface.
- the metal film may serve as a cap layer on the second surface.
- the metal film may serve as a conductive pathway on the second surface (i.e. a line, pad or plug).
- the metal film can, for example, be deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), plasma-enhanced ALD (PEALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD), or pulsed CVD.
- the metal film may be selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, Co, Rh, Ir, Fe, Ru, Os, Mn, Tc, Re, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pd or Pt and a combination thereof.
- a metal or metal nitride film is selectively deposited on the second surface.
- the metal or metal nitride film may serve as a cap layer on the second surface.
- the metal or metal nitride film may serve as a diffusion barrier layer.
- the metal or metal nitride film can, for example, be deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), plasma-enhanced ALD (PEALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD), or pulsed CVD.
- deposition on a first surface of a substrate as described herein, such as a Si0 2 surface of the substrate, relative to a second H-terminated surface of the substrate is at least about 90% selective, at least about 95% selective, at least about 96%, 97%, 98% or 99% or greater selective. In some embodiments deposition only occurs on the first surface and does not occur on the second surface. In some embodiments deposition on the first surface of the substrate relative to the second surface of the substrate is at least about 70% selective, or at least about 80% selective, which may be selective enough for some particular applications. In some embodiments deposition on the first surface of the substrate relative to the second surface of the substrate is at least about 50% selective, which may be selective enough for some particular applications.
- the following examples will demonstrate each of the claimed method steps.
- the goal of the invention and that of the experiments that have been run is to produce a Si0 2 surface that is nearly free of hydroxyl groups and that, additionally, has a monolayer to sub-monolayer coverage of an organosilane passivating coating.
- the 'steric' hindrance of the passivating molecules on the surface of the Si0 2 closely matches the nearly uniform mean spacing of the surface hydroxyl groups left after the thermal treatment step has been completed (see illustration of FIG. 2).
- Step 1 contacting the substrate with a wet chemical composition to obtain a treated substrate comprising an increased concentration of surface hydroxyl groups relative to the initial concentration of surface hydroxyl groups
- Both substrate surfaces were first cleaned in a freshly prepared solution comprising hydrogen peroxide (28-30 %), ammonium hydroxide (28 %) and distilled de- ionized water in the ratio of 200 ml : 100 ml : 1000 ml, the cleaning encompassing first mixing the chemicals together in a quartz beaker, heating the solution in the beaker to 70° C + / - 5° C, fully immersing the substrate surfaces in the pre-heated cleaning solution for 10 minutes, removing the substrates from the cleaning solution and immersing them in a container filled with fresh distilled deionized water and rinsing said substrates until the cleaning solution concentration on the substrates has been diluted to below detection limits.
- the first step is complete. Although illustrated through a wet cleaning step, the invention is not so limited.
- the fully hydroxylated Si0 2 and Si(100) surfaces provided by the previous example are then simultaneously treated using an HF solution with a concentration of between 2.0-3.0 % (0.1 % - 5.0% range) for a time sufficient to yield a fully hydrophobic surface on the Si(100) and are then rinsed in water and blown dry using a stream of ultra-high purity nitrogen.
- the formation of the Si(100)-H terminated surface takes between 80 and 110 s at room temperature (range: 20 s - 600 s).
- the surfaces of the Si0 2 and the Si(100) were characterized using contact angle measurements.
- Typical values measured post the HF-etch step for the two substrate surfaces include:
- the Si(100)-H surface has proven to show limited stability towards air exposure with a propensity to oxidize, thereby negating the chemical differentiation from the Si0 2 surface that is required to achieve selective passivation layer formation.
- the substrates could be stored in a chemically inert environment where the rate of oxidation is very slow relative to air and then quickly loaded into the reactor system.
- Plasma processes (as mentioned previously), wet processes or combinations of the two may be used to provide the necessary chemical terminations with the properties that have been described.
- Step 2 heating the treated substrate to a temperature of from about 200 °C to about 600 °C, wherein the heating step converts at least a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups on the first surface to surface siloxane groups on the surface of the substrate
- the purpose of the thermal pre-treatment is to reduce the surface hydroxyl concentration by the maximal amount, ideally leaving behind only isolated hydroxyl groups that will then be passivated using one of the organosilane precursors using a vapor phase process. To realize the maximal decrease in surface hydroxyl
- One of the cleaned 1000 A Si0 2 samples was then loaded into the tube of a tube furnace reactor system under a flow of 250 seem ultra-high purity N 2 gas at room temperature.
- the tube was then sealed and slowly evacuated to a pressure of 10 imTorr.
- a flow of 20 seem N 2 was then introduced into the reactor tube and a reduced pressure N 2 purge was conducted for 2 minutes (at a pressure of 2.3 Torr).
- the flow of N 2 was then stopped and the tube was evacuated to a pressure of ⁇ 5 imTorr.
- the previously described cycle purging steps are repeated until base pressure is achieved within the reactor system.
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 4, which illustrates the sample temperature as a function of time.
- FIG. 4 also shows the trace of the moisture emission from the sample that occurs during the thermal treatment step (as measured by an in-situ quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS)). This emission of moisture is consistent with the silanol condensation reaction described previously.
- QMS in-situ quadrupole mass spectrometer
- the sample was cooled to room temperature under a flow of 20 seem ultra-high purity N 2 (at a pressure of 2.3 Torr). The sample was then unloaded under a flow of 500 seem N 2 , quickly enclosed in a container and then stored under N 2 for shipment to the vendor for TOF-SIMS.
- Example 5 Thermal Treatment (Reduction of Si0 2 Surface Hydroxyl Concentration in a Controlled Fashion with Minimal Impact on the Hydride Surface Termination of the Si(1 00) Surfaces) [00161 ]
- the Si(100) and Si0 2 substrates with the desired chemical surface terminations prepared by Examples 1 and 2 are next loaded into the reactor system where they are subjected to several pump-purge cycles to remove atmospheric and physisorbed contaminants.
- the first cycle involves pumping the samples to a pressure of between 5 and 10 imTorr above base pressure, followed by a reduced pressure N 2 purge (10-20 seem of ultra-high purity N 2 ) at a pressure of 2-4 Torr for 3 minutes, followed by a pumping step to a pressure of between 1 and 3 imTorr above base pressure, followed by a reduced pressure N 2 purge (10-20 seem of ultra-high purity N 2 ) at a pressure of 2-4 Torr for 3 minutes, followed by a final pump down step to base pressure.
- a heated load lock was not available so cycle purging was performed in the reactor tube itself.
- thermocouples one embedded within the furnace itself and in contact with the reactor tube and one that closely approximates the actual sample temperature. This is the actual profile used to reduce the hydroxyl concentration on the Si0 2 surfaces through the reaction:
- FIG. 8 shows the data collected using the in-situ mass spectrometer overlaid with the thermal treatment temperature profile and clearly shows the evolution of water from the samples.
- the thermal treatment may be performed over a range of conditions, but at present it has been demonstrated for reduced pressure operation under a flow of ultra-high purity N 2 with a pressure of about 2.5 Torr at a flow rate of about 20 seem N 2 .
- Si(100) 56.3 (showing oxidation upon air exposure; for reference Si(100) + no thermal treatment dry run sample: 57.9; Si(100) samples stored in air: show continual oxidation after exposure and storage in air; eventually reach steady state near -41 .9° which is very close to the value accepted by those skilled in the art for silicon dioxide).
- Example 6 Thermal Treatment As-received 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100)
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 10 as a function of time.
- FIG. 1 1 The TOF-SIMS Spectra of the 'as-received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) samples, with and without thermal treatment for comparison, are depicted in FIG. 1 1. Referring to FIG. 1 1 , some environmental contamination in the form of sodium (Na) and potassium (K) is also visible in the spectrum for the "as-received" 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) post thermal treatment and is likely the result of sampling handling prior to TOF-SIMS measurements.
- Na sodium
- K potassium
- Example 7 Thermal Treatment Example 2 (SC-1 Cleaned Silicon Dioxide Sample (1 ,000 A Thermal Si0 2 on Si(100))
- the SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water. The samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 12.
- FIG. 12 Overlaid in FIG. 12 is a trace of the moisture emission from the sample that occurs during the thermal treatment step (as measured by an in-situ q u ad ru pole mass spectrometer (QMS)). This emission of moisture is consistent with the silanol condensation reaction described previously.
- QMS in-situ q u ad ru pole mass spectrometer
- the 'SC-1 cleaned' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples were cooled to room temperature under a flow of 20 seem ultra-high purity N 2 (at a pressure of 2.3 Torr). The samples were then unloaded under a flow of 500 seem N 2 , quickly enclosed in a container and then stored under N 2 for shipment to the vendor for analytical characterization of their properties.
- Example 8 Thermal Treatment of ('SC-1 Cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Thermal Si0 2 on Si(100) Sample
- the SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water. The samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the dried SC-1 cleaned samples were then placed into a Teflon boat suitable for immersion in an HF-etch batch.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an HF- etch bath (51 ml ultra-high purity HF (48-49 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was at 21 + / - 2 °C where they were etched for 90 seconds.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) samples were then removed from the HF solution and quickly immersed in distilled, de-ionized water and then dried thoroughly using a stream of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- thermocouples one representing the external tube temperature- 'wall' and one representing the sample temperature
- FIG. 15 The TOF-SIMS Spectra of the 'SC-1 cleaned' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) samples, with and without thermal treatment for comparison, are shown in FIG. 15. Referring to FIG. 15, it can be seen that some environmental contamination in the form of sodium (Na) and potassium (K) is present in the spectrum for the "SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched" 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) post thermal treatment and is likely the result of sampling handling prior to TOF-SIMS measurements.
- Na sodium
- K potassium
- the as-received sample (which did not have its surface hydroxyl concentration increased beyond its normal state) shows a very small change in surface hydroxyl concentration after the thermal treatment step. There was no major reduction in surface hydroxyl concentration for this sample post thermal treatment
- both the SC-1 and the SC-1 + HF samples have increased surface hydroxyl concentrations relative to the as-received sample that did not receive a step to increase its surface hydroxyl concentration.
- Step 3 exposing the substrate, at a temperature equal to or below the heating step, to a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of Formula I and
- Example 9 Selectively Form an Organosilane-Based Passivation Layer on the Si0 2 Surfaces Provided by the Above Steps, But Not on the Si(100) Surfaces
- the surfaces provided by the above steps were then processed further to react the remaining hydroxyl groups on the Si0 2 surfaces with organosilane precursor molecules using vapor phase reactions, while avoiding reactions between the hydride groups on the Si(100) surface.
- the resulting Si0 2 surfaces are thus passivated as fully as possible by eliminating (to a very large degree) the hydroxyl groups that are available to serve as reactive nucleation sites during subsequent film deposition processes.
- a mixture of Si0 2 and Si(100) samples that have been processed as detailed above are disposed in the reactor system at the conclusion of thermal treatment under a flow of 20 seem ultra-high purity N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr and a temperature of 420° C. While maintaining a flow of ultra-high purity N 2 at reduced pressure, the samples are cooled to 270° C and equilibrated at that temperature for 10 minutes. The Si0 2 samples are then selectively passivated by exposing them to the following reaction sequence:
- the N 2 flow is maintained at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for 1 minute and then terminated.
- the tube and gas panel are then evacuated to base pressure (time to evacuate is strongly dependent upon the precursor being utilized, but typically 1 - 3 minutes is required).
- Steps (2) - (7) are then repeated two times to selectively form a trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the Si0 2 surfaces while not forming a passivation on the Si(100)-H surface
- FIG. 17 is comprised of the following data sets:
- the measurements of the control samples from both experiments are very similar and reflect the high degree of repeatability of the cleaning processes that were developed.
- the most important data set is that of the live run samples. They exhibit properties that are very much in agreement with the conclusion that trimethylsilyl surface passivation has been selectively formed on the Si0 2 surfaces, but not on the Si(100) surfaces. Namely, the Si0 2 surfaces exhibit high water contact angles (approaching 100°) after processing, suggestive that the desired passivation layer has been formed on the Si0 2 surfaces, while the Si(100) surfaces exhibit significantly reduced water contact angles (suggestive that no passivation layer has been formed on the Si(100) surfaces).
- the decrease in the Si(100) contact angle is related to the air oxidation of the Si(100) sample surfaces upon their removal from the reactor system. This has been proven by tracking the water contact angle of the Si(100) samples from both the dry and live runs as a function of time, as well as by generating data related to samples that were cleaned and etched but never put in the reactor system (i.e. allowed to stand in air post the HF-etch step). In all cases, the contact angle continues to decrease until it approaches -41 .9°, the value accepted by those skilled in the art for the water contact angle of silicon dioxide.
- Si(100) samples that do not receive an HF-etch exhibit water contact angles >96°, very similar to the Si0 2 surfaces (as would be expected by one skilled in the art since they will be hydroxylated Si0 2 surfaces in the absence of the HF-etch step). This behavior is consistent with the lack of formation of any trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the Si(100) surfaces.
- Example B Bipodal Precursor
- a mixture of Si0 2 and Si(100) samples that have been processed through the steps detailed above are disposed in the reactor system at the conclusion of the thermal treatment step under a flow of 20 seem ultra-high purity N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr and a temperature of 420° C. While maintaining a flow of ultra-high purity N 2 at reduced pressure, the samples are cooled to 405° C and equilibrated at that temperature for 10 minutes. The Si0 2 samples are then selectively passivated by exposing them to the following reaction sequence:
- the tube is charged with a working pressure of 0.200 to 0.245 Torr (comprised of [CISi(CH 3 ) 2 ] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 ) at which time the valve to the bubbler containing the liquid [CISi(CH 3 ) 2 ] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 and the valve isolating the gas panel from the tube are both closed.
- Steps (2) - (7) are then repeated nine times to selectively form a bis- dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on the Si0 2 surfaces while not forming a passivation on the Si(100)-H surface.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the dried SC-1 cleaned samples were then placed into a Teflon boat suitable for immersion in an HF-etch batch.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an HF- etch bath (51 ml ultra-high purity HF (48-49 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was at 21 + / - 2 °C where they were etched for 90 seconds.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the HF solution and quickly immersed in distilled, de-ionized water and then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 19.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 mTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 20.8 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 20.5 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- Example 1 1 (Comparative): Selective Formation of trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the dried SC-1 cleaned samples were then placed into a Teflon boat suitable for immersion in an HF-etch batch.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an HF- etch bath (51 ml ultra-high purity HF (48-49 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was at 21 + / - 2 °C where they were etched for 90 seconds.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A SiO 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the HF solution and quickly immersed in distilled, de-ionized water and then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the third chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 21 .4 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- Example 12 Selective Formation of bis-dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using [CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 (1 ,2-bis-chlorodimethylsilylethane) at 370 °C with thermal treatment processing.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the dried SC-1 cleaned samples were then placed into a Teflon boat suitable for immersion in an HF-etch batch.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an HF- etch bath (51 ml ultra-high purity HF (48-49 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was at 21 + / - 2 °C where they were etched for 90 seconds.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A SiO 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the HF solution and quickly immersed in distilled, de-ionized water and then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 22.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.25 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through twelfth chemical doses of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.24 Torr and 0.26 Torr.
- the third through twelfth doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the bis- dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 and Si(100) samples were cooled to room temperature under a flow of 20 seem ultra-high purity N 2 at a pressure of 2.3 Torr. The samples were then unloaded under a flow of 500 seem N 2 , quickly enclosed in a container and then stored under N 2 for shipment to the vendor for analytical characterization of their properties.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 and Si(100) samples were characterized using water contact angle measurements, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). The results of these analyses are presented in the tables below:
- FIG. 23 The TOF-SIMS spectra for the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 and Si(100) samples are presented in FIG. 23.
- the lack of observation of the peaks associated with bis-dimethylsilylethane surface passivation in the Si(100) TOF-SIMS spectrum is evidence that the formation of the passivation layer was limited to the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched' 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) substrate. That is, the passivation was formed selectively on the desired surface and not on the Si(100) surface.
- Example 13 (Comparative): Selective Formation of bis-dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using [CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 (1 ,2-bis-chlorodimethylsilylethane) at 370 °C without thermal treatment processing.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the dried SC-1 cleaned samples were then placed into a Teflon boat suitable for immersion in an HF-etch batch.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an HF- etch bath (51 ml ultra-high purity HF (48-49 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was at 21 + / - 2 °C where they were etched for 90 seconds.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A SiO 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the HF solution and quickly immersed in distilled, de-ionized water and then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 1 0 mTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.23 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through twelfth chemical doses of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.23 Torr and 0.25 Torr.
- the third through twelfth doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the bis- dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- Example 14 (Comparative): Selective Formation of bis-dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on 'as-received', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using
- a flow of 20 seem N 2 was then introduced into the reactor tube and a reduced pressure N 2 purge was conducted for 2 minutes (at a pressure of 2.3 Torr). The flow of N 2 was then stopped and the tube was evacuated to a pressure of ⁇ 5 imTorr. The previously described cycle purging steps were repeated until the base pressure of the system was achieved.
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 25.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.25 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through twelfth chemical doses of (CI(CH 3 )2Si]2(CH2)2 were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.24 Torr and 0.26 Torr.
- the third through twelfth doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the bis- dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- Example 15 (Comparative): Selective Formation of bis-dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on 'as-received', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using
- the tube was then charged with a first chemical dose of 1 ,2-bis-chlorodimethylsilylethane [(CI(CH 3 )2Si]2(CH 2 )2] to a pressure of 0.23 Torr and then isolated at this pressure for 10 minutes.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 mTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CI(CH 3 )2Si]2(CH 2 )2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.23 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through twelfth chemical doses of (CI(CH 3 )2Si]2(CH2)2 were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.23 Torr and 0.25 Torr.
- the third through twelfth doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the bis- dimethylsilylethane surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- Example 16 (Comparative): Selective Formation of trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- a 515 °C thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) by ramping the samples to 515 °C at the maximum ramping rate of the furnace (ca. 20 °C / minute).
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 20.8 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 20.0 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
- FIGS. 28 to 30 The TOF-SIMS spectra for the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 , the 'as- received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 and Si(100) samples are presented in FIGS. 28 to 30. Referring to FIGS. 28 to 30, the lack of observation of the peaks associated with trimethylsilyl surface passivation in the Si(100) TOF-SIMS spectrum is evidence that the formation of the passivation layer was limited to the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched' 1 ,000 A Si02 /
- the passivation was formed selectively on the desired surface and not on the Si(100) surface.
- Example 17 Selective Formation of bis-dimethylsilylethane / trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and on 'as-received', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) using [CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 (1 ,2-bis-chlorodimethylsilylethane) and (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 )3 (dimethylaminotrimethylsilane) at 370 °C with thermal treatment processing.
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si02 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.25 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through twelfth chemical doses of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.25 Torr and 0.26 Torr.
- the third through twelfth doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses.
- the reactor tube was then evacuated to base pressure over a period of 15 minutes prior to the start of chemical dosing with dimethylaminotrimethylsilane.
- the tube was then charged with a first chemical dose of dimethylaminotrimethylsilane [(CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 )3] to a pressure of 20.4 Torr and then isolated at this pressure for 10 minutes.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 )3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 20.3 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 19.8 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples and 'as-received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples.
- Example 18 Selective Formation of bis-dimethylsilylethane / trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using [CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si]2(CI-l 2 ) 2 (1 ,2-bis-chlorodimethylsilylethane) and (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 )3
- the boat and samples were then immersed in an SC-1 cleaning solution (100 ml ultra-high purity NH 4 OH (28%-30%); 200 ml ultra-high purity H 2 0 2 (28-30 %); 1000 ml distilled, deionized H 2 0) that was pre-heated to a temperature of 70 + / - 5 °C where they were cleaned for 10 minutes.
- SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water.
- the samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 mTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.26 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through twelfth chemical doses of (CI(CH 3 ) 2 Si] 2 (CH 2 ) 2 were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.25 Torr and 0.26 Torr.
- the third through twelfth doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses.
- the reactor tube was then evacuated to base pressure over a period of 15 minutes prior to the start of chemical dosing with dimethylaminotrimethylsilane.
- the tube was then charged with a first chemical dose of dimethylaminotrimethylsilane [(CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 ] to a pressure of 20.4 Torr and then isolated at this pressure for 10 minutes.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 20.3 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 ) 3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 19.8 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples and 'as-received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples.
- Example 19 Selective formation of tri-n-propylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100), "as-received” 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 2 CH 2 CH (dimethylaminotri-n-propylsilane) at 270 °C with thermal treatment processing.
- the "SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched" " ⁇ , ⁇ Si0 2 samples were subjected to the same processes as described for the samples in Example 12 prior to the formation of the passivation layer.
- a tri-n-propylsilyl passivation layer was then selectively formed on the "SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched” 1 ,000A Si0 2 samples, but not on the "SC-1 cleaned, HF- etched” Si(100) samples using the following process.
- dimethylamino(tri-n-propyl) silane (CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 ) 3 SiN(CH 3 ) 2 to a pressure of 0.089 Torr and then isolated at this pressure for 10 minutes.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for two minutes.
- Example 20 Selective Formation of tri-n-propylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100), "as-received” 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and not on Si(100) using (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 2 CH 2 CH 3 )3 (dimethylaminotri-n-propylsilane) at 270 °C without thermal treatment processing.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 mTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 ) 3 SiN(CH 3 ) 2 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.079 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- Example 21 (Comparative): Formation of tri-n-propylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and "as-received" 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) using
- CISi(CH 2 CH 2 CH 3 ) 3 tri-n-propyl chlorosilane
- N 2 purge was conducted for 2 minutes (at a pressure of 2.3 Torr). The flow of N 2 was then stopped and the tube was evacuated to a pressure of ⁇ 5 imTorr. The previously described cycle purging steps were repeated until the base pressure of the system was achieved.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for one minute.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 CH 2 CI-l 2 ) 3 SiCI was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 0.320 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third through tenth chemical doses of (CH 3 CH 2 CH 2 ) 3 SiCI were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of these doses varied slightly between 0.300 Torr and 0.350 Torr.
- the third through eleventh doses were then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the tri-n-propylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples and 'as-received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples.
- Example 22 Formation of trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and "as-received" 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) using
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for one minute.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 3 SiBr was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 20.5 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third dose of (CH 3 ) 3 SiBr were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of this dose was 19.5 Torr.
- the third dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples and 'as- received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples.
- Example 23 Formation of trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and "as-received" 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) using
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 imTorr for one minute.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 3 SiCI was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 24.7 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third dose of (CH 3 ) 3 SiBr were then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of this dose was 1 .9 Torr and the exposure time was 10 minutes.
- the third dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples and 'as-received' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples.
- Example 24 Formation of trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned", 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and "as-received", 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) using ISi(CH 3 ) 3
- a flow of 20 seem N 2 was then introduced into the reactor tube and a reduced pressure N 2 purge was conducted for 2 minutes (at a pressure of 2.3 Torr). The flow of N 2 was then stopped and the tube was evacuated to a pressure of ⁇ 5 imTorr. The previously described cycle purging steps were repeated until the base pressure of the system was achieved.
- the thermal treatment was then performed under a reduced pressure purge of ultra-high purity N 2 gas (at 2.3 Torr) using the pre-programmed heating process recipe stored on the temperature controller for the furnace.
- the heat traces of two independent thermocouples are shown in FIG. 36.
- iodotrimethylsilane [ISi(CH 3 ) 3 ] to a pressure of 20.1 Torr and then isolated at this pressure for 20 minutes.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 1 0 imTorr for one minute.
- the second chemical dose of [ISi(CH 3 ) 3 ] was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 1 9.8 Torr. The second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third chemical dose of [ISi(CH 3 ) 3 ] was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 20.2 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned', 1 ,000 A Si0 2 samples and the 'as-received', 1000 A Si0 2 samples.
- the 'SC-1 cleaned' 1 ,000 A Si0 2 and 'as-received' 1000 A Si0 2 samples were cooled to room temperature under a flow of 20 seem ultra-high purity N 2 at a pressure of 2.3 Torr. The samples were then unloaded under a flow of 500 seem N 2 , quickly enclosed in a container and then stored under N 2 for shipment to the vendor for analytical characterization of their properties.
- Example 25 Formation of trimethylsilyl surface passivation on 'SC-1 cleaned", 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and "as-received", 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) using ISi(CH 3 ) 3
- the SC-1 cleaned, 1 ,000 A Si0 2 / Si(100) and Si(100) samples were then removed from the cleaning bath and rinsed of chemicals using three dump rinse cycles of distilled, deionized water. The samples were then dried thoroughly using a source of ultra-high purity N 2 gas that was filtered for particles.
- the first chemical dose was then removed from the chamber using a combination of reduced pressure N 2 purging and evacuation that encompassed first introducing a dynamic flow of 20 seem N 2 at a pressure of 2.5 Torr for one minute, followed by evacuation of the tube to a pressure not greater than 10 mTorr for two minutes.
- the second chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 )3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first dose except that the pressure of the second dose was 21 .0 Torr.
- the second dose was then removed in the same manner as the first chemical dose prior to the introduction of the third chemical dose.
- the third chemical dose of (CH 3 ) 2 NSi(CH 3 )3 was then introduced in a manner identical to the first and second doses except that the pressure of the third dose was 21 .4 Torr.
- the third chemical dose was then removed in the same manner as the first and second chemical doses, completing the selective formation of the trimethylsilyl surface passivation on the 'SC-1 cleaned, HF-etched', 1 ,000 A Si02 samples, but not on the Si(100) samples.
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